Essay name: Ahara as depicted in the Pancanikaya
Author:
Le Chanh
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This critical study of Ahara (鈥渇ood鈥�) explores its significance in Buddhism, encompassing both physical and mental nourishment. The Panca Nikaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka, highlights how all human problems, including suffering and happiness, are connected to Ahara. Understanding this concept is crucial for comprehending and alleviating suffering, aiming for a balanced, enlightened life.
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
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Mindfulness make the only way to extinguish the wishes of mind
causing suffering and do help one develop the noble wishes with
immeasurable mind overcoming the boundary of the self-thought, leading
to true happiness in the present of here-and-now.
7.3.4. Solution for consciousness crisis
The crisis of health, sense organs, and will will be leading to that of
consciousness. Every day all the seeds of anger, greed, delusion,
suspicions, grasping, and pride sown on the land of our consciousness
and create our body,
our body,
mind, and world; it is very painful. Our
consciousness has consumed the countless toxins through the unmindful
thoughts, words, and actions. Such is the crisis of consciousness.
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Lord Buddha said, "The one who is calm in body, calm in speech,
calm in mind, who is well-composed, who has rejected worldly life this is
truly called 'peaceful one. Calm in all actions is one of solutions for
the crisis of consciousness. Further, the solution for its crisis is to
cultivate the meditation through the contemplation of the sixteen mental
states and the contemplation of mental objects in which the five
hindrances (pa帽ca nivaran膩ni)530 must be identified and extinguished,
and to practise the four immeasurable minds and the Noble Eightfold
Path as mentioned leading to the purification and the extrication of crises
of consciousness and in order to transform one's consciousness into
wisdom.
527 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Body contemplation, contemplation on feelings,
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530 contemplation on mind, and contemplation on mental objects. (see at Satipatth膩nasutta, M. I.)
Dhp., verse No. 378.
M. I, Satipatth膩nasutta.
The five hindrances: Sense desire (k膩macchanda), anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and
skeptical doubt, ibid.
